AI Workforce Growth Lead – UKS & Microsoft Alignment

Avanade Inc.; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Avanade UK is seeking an AI Workforce Solution Area Lead to drive growth and market positioning for AI-enabled workplace transformation. You will align with Microsoft, shape priority propositions, and oversee a coherent operating rhythm across practices and GTM functions.

The role focuses on turning market demand into pipeline and revenue, partnering with Microsoft, Accenture and client groups, while ensuring a credible, commercially viable delivery model and skilled workforce plan.

Qualifications

• Senior leadership experience in modern workplace and AI-enabled productivity.
• Strong commercial track record in growing technology, consulting or managed services.
• Experience shaping and selling client propositions in a Microsoft ecosystem.
• Credibility with Microsoft, Accenture and client executives.
• Understanding AI adoption, change management and productivity transformation.
• Ability to lead through influence across multiple internal teams.

Responsibilities

• Own the UKS AI Workforce growth strategy across direct and indirect channels.
• Define the Solution Area plan, including priority propositions and target clients.
• Ensure Microsoft alignment, capability priorities, and growth focus.
• Act as primary Avanade UKS interface to Microsoft for the Solution Area.
• Build AI-led propositions to improve productivity and business value from Microsoft technologies.
• Integrate Practice and GTM strategies to support a single Solution Area strategy.
• Drive pipeline creation, opportunity conversion, and revenue growth.
• Partner with Client Groups, Microsoft, Accenture and Delivery on key pursuits.
• Shape capability roadmap and workforce plan with Practice Lead.
• Own strategic capability direction: build, buy, borrow or partner.
• Ensure the delivery model is commercially viable and credible with clients.
• Maintain Sold-vs-Delivered CCI integrity in partnership with Practice and Delivery.
• Build Avanade UKS market reputation in AI-enabled workplace transformation.
• Contribute to cross-Solution Area opportunities where AI Workforce is involved.

Skills

Senior leadership

AI-enabled productivity

Microsoft 365

Copilot

Employee experience

Collaboration

Workforce transformation

Commercial track record

Client propositions

Credibility with Microsoft/Accenture

Change management

Influence across teams

Pricing and revenue focus

Strategic growth storytelling

Job description

Avanade UK is seeking an AI Workforce Solution Area Lead to drive growth and market positioning for AI-enabled workplace transformation. You will align with Microsoft, shape priority propositions, and oversee a coherent operating rhythm across practices and GTM functions.

The role focuses on turning market demand into pipeline and revenue, partnering with Microsoft, Accenture and client groups, while ensuring a credible, commercially viable delivery model and skilled workforce plan.